From bf70b0503abd19194dba25fe383d143d0229dc6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 16:58:21 +0900 Subject: module: swap the order of symbol.namespace Currently, EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(_GPL) constructs the kernel symbol as follows: __ksymtab_SYMBOL.NAMESPACE The sym_extract_namespace() in modpost allocates memory for the part SYMBOL.NAMESPACE when '.' is contained. One problem is that the pointer returned by strdup() is lost because the symbol name will be copied to malloc'ed memory by alloc_symbol(). No one will keep track of the pointer of strdup'ed memory. sym->namespace still points to the NAMESPACE part. So, you can free it with complicated code like this: free(sym->namespace - strlen(sym->name) - 1); It complicates memory free. To fix it elegantly, I swapped the order of the symbol and the namespace as follows: __ksymtab_NAMESPACE.SYMBOL then, simplified sym_extract_namespace() so that it allocates memory only for the NAMESPACE part. I prefer this order because it is intuitive and also matches to major languages. For example, NAMESPACE::NAME in C++, MODULE.NAME in Python. Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'scripts') diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 3961941e8e7a..c4b536ac1327 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -350,18 +350,16 @@ static enum export export_from_sec(struct elf_info *elf, unsigned int sec) static const char *sym_extract_namespace(const char **symname) { - size_t n; - char *dupsymname; + char *namespace = NULL; + char *ns_separator; - n = strcspn(*symname, "."); - if (n < strlen(*symname) - 1) { - dupsymname = NOFAIL(strdup(*symname)); - dupsymname[n] = '\0'; - *symname = dupsymname; - return dupsymname + n + 1; + ns_separator = strchr(*symname, '.'); + if (ns_separator) { + namespace = NOFAIL(strndup(*symname, ns_separator - *symname)); + *symname = ns_separator + 1; } - return NULL; + return namespace; } /** -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b